The Finished Work of Jesus Part 2

The New Testament speaks of God's Love for us in another dimension, in the Old Testament God showed His compassion and love for mankind by Blessing them with Health, Wealth, Strength or the ability to do Great Works by calling on his name. In The New Testament the Bible begins with the Birth of Jesus The Christ God’s only son born of a Virgin the heir to all God has, sent to us to make right what Adam destroyed by sin.

In Romans 5 Paul speaks to us about Jesus and how he came to reconcile us to God by his death. Until the point of Jesus’ death Jewish priest offered sacrifices of lambs, oxen and doves for the Atonement of the sin of man, but God always had a plan to bring man back to the point of His original plan, so He set up His own Atonement. The sacrifices of animals were to be the first born and the best of the flock so God sent His only precious and beloved Son, the animals also had to be flawless with no blemish, Jesus was a perfect and without sin His whole life. With that said just as one man's disobedience we were made sinners, one Man's obedience made us Righteous.

Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Rom 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Rom 5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

Rom 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Jesus became sin so that we could become righteous and now we are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus, we are now co- inheritors of everything God has though Jesus sacrifice of His Life, we became everything He was and is today and He became all that we were. This is a key point, have you ever thought of how Jesus got into hell? Here is the answer; God designed hell for satan and his demons but man now is given a chance to get redemption for his sin through the finished work of Jesus. Those who refused His salvation shall be damned to hell.

Mar 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

So if Jesus never sinned how did He go to hell? John the Baptist said:

Joh 1:29  The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

In the Old Testament the high priest would make a sin atonement by placing his hand on the lamb and transferring the sins Israel to the lamb and then kill it spilling the blood as a sacrifice hence ridding the sins of Israel.

Jesus in this same manner became all the sins man ever did and was rejected by God The Father for His sinfulness died and went to hell as a sinner. But once in hell and our transgressions already paid for by death and entrance to hell His glory was once again revealed and no force in hell could stop Him. Jesus took the key of death, hell and the grave and walked right out of hell and the angels waited for Him as He came out of the tomb restored in His resurrected body.

Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Rom 6:4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Rom 6:5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Rom 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Rom 6:7  For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Rom 6:8  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

Rom 6:9  Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

Rom 6:10  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

All God has is available to every man, woman, and child by the Grace of God, so what is God's Grace? Well grace by definition means unmerited, undeserved favor, but God grace means forgiveness, empowerment, salvation, redemption, love, blessing, health, wealth, and all things Good. The Bible states all good and perfect things come from God, it is also written that Jesus came to give us Life and Life more abundantly. God's Grace wants to give us the desires of our hearts and bless us beyond what we can think or imagine all this is available to us through Faith. Believing in Jesus Christ as our Lord and believing that He died for our sins and accept that based on what Jesus did we are now saved, justified, and are now righteous heirs to our inheritance from God.

How do we do this? You can become saved by Believing on Jesus Christ and know that he died for our sins confess it in hearts and becoming born again. There was a man who asked Jesus how can I be born again; can he enter his mother womb a second time? The answer is NO! To be born again means to have your Spirit man which we talked about in part one that died due to Adam’s disobedience rekindled. When this happens our Spirit man is born again because it was alive before Adam’s transgression against God after his sin our Spirit man died and the connection was lost with God.  But thanks be to God and to Jesus for His obedience God excepted His life as a permanent sacrifice and we are redeem and now our spirit has a new birth, hence the terminology Born Again. Now when we are born again this is why we are called babes in Christ, because we are new to the spiritual world just as new born babies and we have to learn and be taught everything to function in this world, the same goes for the spirit world or to understand God’s System of Operation.

Through this new life we have now inherited all the gifts of the spirit, we have the full amour of God, we have all the abilities that Jesus and the apostles have and had in us now. Just as babies have everything they need to walk the day they are born, yet they must learn hand eye co ordination, fine motor skills etc. we must also develop in Christ the same way to be able to harness all God has for us. We can do this by developing The Mind of Christ.

We are no longer bound to the things of this world because we no longer belong to this world we are now sons and daughters of God, Just as His Son Jesus Christ. The earth is the Lord and the fullness there of and I am the inheritor of it all because God is my Father and all the Believers and followers of Christ are our brothers and sisters because we have the same Father. This now changes my socio-economic status I no longer have to work for a living because I am an heir to the entire earth I have stocks that pays me, but its like having a rich grand uncle that pass and left you 5 million dollars in the will and you don’t know the will exists or the executor to the will comes and tell you, you have inherited 5 million dollars and you don’t believe him so you never claim it. So we have to study the word of God, The Holy Bible to know what is all available to us. Now don’t miss understand what I am saying. I am not saying that we do not have to work as believers; I am saying we don’t work for a living because we have an inheritance. But we still work on assignment God has a predestinated assignment for everyone to accomplish His work in the earth and when you do the work of God provision comes along with the assignment.

Praises be to the most high God creator of heaven and earth and our Father who Loves us so much that we can not even begin to phantom how deep and how far His Love for us extends.

The Finished Work of Jesus Part 1b

In Genesis 3:15 told the first prophecy of Jesus "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and between her seed; it shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel.” This is referencing to Jesus coming and breaking the hold that satan gained through the sin that broke the direct connection with man and God, to redeem us back to our right place with God. The Old Testament then goes on to talk about the destruction of earth through a flood and God makes a promise to man that he will never destroy the earth again by flood and the symbol of this convent is the rainbow(Gen 9:11-14). A few chapters later on in Genesis a man named Abram is introduced and God calls him apart from his people and his family God chooses this man to produce the Lineage that would bring forth the Christ our Messiah, the redeemer His Son. God separated him and Blessed and told him 12:2,3 “I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: (3) and I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee: and in thee all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.” Here is the famous blessing of Abraham where in the Jew's of the New Testament had sense of entitlement because they were children of Abraham.

God separated Abram from his family so He could get Abram out of the current systems he operated in, also Abram and his family worshipped the moon, God need to renew Abraham’s mind so he would be prepared for the grand task set before him. God needed Abram to teach his children all of His ways, what all God expected from them and what all was available to them and pass it on from generation to generation. God needed this done with no one influencing from the outside, He needed Abram, to know that He was El Shaddai- The God Almighty, Yahweh Yireh- The LORD will provide, Elohim- God mighty  creator, and El Elyon- God Most High to name a few. Abram also had to know the importance of his life, his seed and to show him how along with The Blessing that was about to be released on him and with that Blessing he would be a part of events that would alter the history of the world. For this he was called alone to God to learn from Him.

From Abraham to Moses who delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt’s slavery into the borders of the promise land gave them The Law that Israel must live in accordance of, the same Perfect and Righteous law that was provided to us to live by was also to show us how unholy we are because we could not live up to the standard set by God. When Moses delivered the Law to the children of Israel and they agreed to them shortly thereafter God told Moses to prepare burnt offerings; He knew that man could not keep the full Law in its entirety because the law is not to make us righteous it was to show us how no matter how much efforts we put forth we are unrighteous in and of our own acts and show us the great need for a savior to deliver us and make us righteous not based on what we have done but based on what He has done for us. Thus allow us to be righteous. Righteousness can never be achieved without Christ but the Bible calls us to be Holy. Holy by definition means: properly, whole, entire or perfect, in a moral sense. Hence, pure in heart, temper or dispositions; free from sin and sinful affections. So we see that holiness has to do with our character and moral. Righteousness on the other hand has to deal with our right standing with God that is only available through Christ.

1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

Rom 3:22  Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe:

2Co 5:21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Moses gave the children of Israel the Law of God and they said all that the LORD said we will do, and be obedient, in the following days after Moses gave the Law that was agreed upon by the congregation of people many turned their backs on the Law formed a golden calf worshiped it sinned against the Law. Moses who is up in the mountain communing with God comes back unto the people, and those who sinned and chose to stay in their sin where killed by the levities those who were not killed where stricken by an angel, because they trespassed against the Law. Before this point Israel was under grace when the wined and complained and sinned against God and Moses but God had compassion, after the Law was passed and they accepted it they were punished based on their works. This is because the law and grace cannot co-exist, before the law the children of Israel was under God’s grace but after the law was instituted they were under law. When we become a born again believer we our saved by Grace through Faith and are no longer under law but under grace once again. 

Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Rom 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Rom 5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

Gal 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

The Law shows us our faults and failures and punishes for the lack of obedience. The Law also states that if we do this and this I will bless you and if you don't do this and this I will curse you (Deuteronomy 28). The Law is based on our works deeds and the way we live, no man could ever completely keep the Law that is why God implemented priest for atonements and sacrifices for our sins.

1 Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

1 Co 15:57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Before the children of Israel received the law all they did was wine and complain to Moses about their status, hunger, thirst, and sickness. But as soon as they received the Law thou shall not, they began doing things they never did before things that broke the Law. God's design is not for us to keep the Law 100%, His plan is to replace the Law with Jesus, and we must walk as Jesus walked and follow as His Spirit leads us.

1Ti 1:9  Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

1Ti 1:10  For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

1Ti 1:11  According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

 The only man to completely keep the Law was Jesus and the states that if we break one law we broke them all so that made the Old Testament believers sinful in the eyes of God.

From that point after the Old Testament shows the lives, trials, triumphs and failures of many God fearing men like Samuel where the Bible says every word he spoke God honored, David which was a man after God's heart, Daniel who was the first to have a glimpse of the future and to see the ending of time before Jesus returns, great prophets like is Isaiah, Jeremiah, wise men like Solomon and strong men like Samson. The Old Testament also teaches us the ways of God how He responses to people, to sin, to obedience, trust and loyalty. Not to remove the law or to disregard it altogether because the law is Perfect, Righteous, and Holy it’s just that man can not keep the law and fall short and fall to his sinful nature this happen continuously throughout The Old Testament so God provided another means by which we can be made Perfect, Righteous and Holy that does not rely on what we do, or how we act hour to hour or our works. God provided a perfect sacrifice in the form of Jesus to erase our sins all together not just cover them up, and bless us not based on what we deserve but based on who we are in Him (Jesus) and now instead of being sin conscience all the time due to a difficult law we are now Christ Jesus conscience based on what He has done for us Thank you God for your Love, Grace and Mercy.

The Finished Work of Jesus Part 1a

The Old Testament and The New Testament combined make all together The Holy Bible. The Holy Bible is the unadulterated word of God from Genesis to Revelation some people believe that only the New Testament is relevant others only the Old Testament, what I'm going to try to do explain the purpose of both the New & Old Testament then reveal to you what Jesus has done for us and the reason why.

The Old Testament records early earth or the beginning it speaks of how God created the earth and walked with man daily, how God and man communed in the cool of the evening face to face. God with all his GLORY and man made in His image talking spending time together the way God originally intended it to be, before the original sin. The original sin or the first sin known also as the fall of man was initiated first by the lust of the eyes. The Bible states in Genesis 3:6 the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit and did eat… She desired what she coveted with her eyes, hence the original or first sin lust, in this case lust of the eyes.

Jesus states in the book of Matthew:

Mat 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

The principle can be applied here who knows how long Eve was in the garden and did not even think about that tree, it was not until after she saw, was tempted and recognized the tree was pleasant to the eyes and one to be desired that she made moves toward getting what she yearned for. This is the sin factor that broke our connection with God the day we died and God took man out of the garden and the curse was instituted. In Genesis 2:17 God tells Adam "thou shall not eat of it (the tree of knowledge of good and evil): for in the day that thou eatest therefore thou shalt surely die." Most people usually miss what God actual meant when he spoke of death here, even Adam & Eve didn't get it.

Gen 3:1  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Gen 3:2  And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

Gen 3:3  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Eve didn’t even get the right message from God she states that they cannot touch or eat of the tree lest they die. When God clearly stated:

Gen 2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

satan is the author of confusion and if he can get you to second guess yourself he can get you to doubt and if he can get you to doubt, he can get you to operate outside of Faith.

And “without faith it is impossible to please him,” Heb 11:6. No Faith or lack thereof is a lack of Spirit strength, and when our Spirit strengthen is low our God awareness is off point or nonexistent which leaves room for our soul to function which is the mind, will and emotion and that is where satan operates from our natural reasoning. Because Eve didn’t completely understand God’s command satan was able to infiltrate his plan and Eve was deceived. The death God spoke of was not of the flesh, meaning your body would die even though the curse also brought death through mortality. God spoke of a spiritual death, God communicates to us through His Spirit to our Spirit when man died that day the spirit man died. I will explain, when we were created the whole man had a Body (made from dirt), Soul (composed of mind will and emotions) and the spirit that came into man by God blowing His breathe into Adam, which combined with man’s body and man became a living soul.

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground [Body], and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [Spirit]; and man became a living soul.

When the forbidden fruit was eaten the spirit man which God personally blew life into Adam’s body his direct connection to God died, in other words the connection was lost and man was now functioning on just the Body (his flesh) and free will (mind will and emotions), because his Spirit man was now dead(hence the reason for us to be born again).

 Most people think that God kicked Adam and Eve out of the garden as a punishment but not so remember God is love:

1Jn 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

1Jn 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

So in every situation you are faced with in life remember God is love and whatever happens to us remember God is Love and it always has love tied anything God does. In John 17 when Jesus said His final prayer among the disciples before Judas betrayed Him, He began to close His prayer by saying:

 Joh 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Jesus says here that God The Father loves us with the same Love that He loves Jesus isn’t that powerful, we have the same love towards us as Jesus had so we should know that God is always finding ways to empower and elevate us but we must be open to Him as be a part of His family. With that said not everything that transpires God is responsible for because sometimes He does not prevent certain things from happen, that are our responsibility to change, fix, prevent, or reduce as Stewarts of the world He has entrusted us with. But KNOW this His actions(things that He is responsible for) towards His Family are always motivated by Love. Adam and Eve where removed from the garden because God wanted to protect them from eating from the tree of life that would allow man to live forever in his sinful state, never to be redeemed.

Crazy, Sexy, Cool and Educated

More About Me

I am crazy sexy cool and educated, well maybe not sexy but I am definitely crazy cool and educated. I am crazy because of my enthusiastic approach to just about everything, my love for laughter, sharing great moments with friends, the wild things I do and say, and if you spend more than ten minutes with me you will see why I say I am crazy.

I ‘m sexy not because of my physical appearance but because of how I approach life. I more than make it look good I make it feel good. My sexy isn’t determined on what I wear or my fitness. My sexy comes from my swagger, my confidence, my approach and my warm personality. My sexy comes from my humble independence that I was created in the image of God, and God doesn’t do ordinary so I am extraordinary. My sexy is nothing physical, it’s all inside me it’s my mental and psychological and it comes out of my voice, my pores and my eyes and allows you to see me in a different light.

I am cool because I am not what you expect. I always know what to say to turn the situation around for the better, I bring out the best in people and my charisma is contagious. I’m like a cool breeze on a hot summer day and I never panic because God is in control. I wear my smooth semi gloss smile like I got it from my barber with my shape up, perfect! I usually don’t rush because it can’t happen until I get there, but I won’t make you wait too long cause I know how to do just right. I’m cooler than the other side of the pillow! 

Educated, yes due to some tertiary education, but I’m educated in matters of the heart, situations that matter to people. I am pleased to be blessed by God with all my senses. Especially the common sense, or should I say the uncommon sense as it seems to be so rare these days. My education scope reaches from national to international affairs, Sports, movies, fashion, books, music, the Bible, people, business, the body and some psychology. I’m educated because I listen, I read, I watch, I learn, I ask questions, admit when I’m wrong, I listen to those who walked before me and it also helps that I’m the son of a wise man. 

My name is Paxton Pharez Cooper and I’m crazy sexy cool and educated.

 

P.U.S.H.!

Pray Until Something Happens and Pursue Until Something Happens: It is in the combination of prayer and perseverance that lays the true secret to revealing the keys to your success. Once we realize that our fear of not being good enough is obsolete, and that we are all created with talents and from our talents our dreams usually stem, it is then we become free to let go and follow our dreams. Still coincidentally most dreams stay exactly that, dreams and never become a reality. Why? To simply put it lack of perseverance, remember “great dreams take great people, great effort and a great amount of Time” (Power of a dream). Perseverance is to continue a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. Let’s face it, to materialize your dream is a daunting task and it was designed that way, to keep dreams special and exclusive. To begin a journey that few if any people know about and receive minimal or no support, then to arrive at your destination and return first class, is an honor and a privilege few get to demonstrate. Remember this. The state you are in when you reach your dream destination is irrelevant, your mannerism and character upon return demonstrates what your dream means and what it has taught you. See most dreams are not about the end product. They are about the process and the lesson along the way. God is not a cruel individual who is happy watching us fail. He is rooting for us 100%. But we get so caught up in the end product that we miss what we are supposed to be getting. Let me explain. What we call the process to the achievement of our goal is really just the training or preparation. And what happens is we get so set on the final outcome that we miss our lesson, we are later faced with a test and we are not equipped and we fail. Once we fail we have to go through the same process again. Have you ever felt like “why do I always have to go through this?” Or “Lord why this again?” The questions should be what is it I have to learn from this? What is it that I am not getting?  If we achieve our goals without the process of “training” we will not be able to sustain our goals. So by us going through the long grueling process we are essentially preserving or protecting the longevity of the dream.

It is important to know that God is the giver of all abilities, talents and dreams. Once you understand that then we can begin to look at the first P.U.S.H. prayer. Since God is the giver of dreams we need to find out why he has given us the dream and what he wants us to do when we reach our destination. Here is why. It is impossible to accomplish your goal without purpose. Without purpose there is no need to accomplish your goal, which makes the goal easy to walk away from. But with purpose and knowing why you have to do it, how many people you will touch, benefit and encourage, you realize your responsibility. Now it is that much harder for you to stop or give in. Remember “your dream should benefit more than just you” (Power of a dream pt2) (More on this topic to come in a later blog)

Now to the physical pursue. It is all good and well to know what you are going to do, how you are going to do it and why you are going to do it, but this point is equally important, acting on it! Now once we know our purpose we have to make adjustments. I have herd many people use dreams with reference to carrying a child and labor, I like those analogies so I am going to stick with them. When a woman comes to the realization that she has become pregnant the first thing she does is changes her lifestyle to best suit the needs of the child she is carrying. The vast majority of women tend to stop smoking and or drinking if those were habits and begin to eat healthier foods. This is because she knows that she is now the sustaining force for a new life and she would like to give the life the best start possible. The same goes for dreams, we need to make the initial adjustment to our lives to give our dreams a chance. In some cases it may be continuing your education, in other cases it may be giving up certain friends, quitting some habits or just developing boldness to stand up or stand out and make a difference in society.  Other adjustments ladies make is to buy new clothing to make it easier to carry the dream and allow it to be a comfortable transition process. Along with this comes the initial pains and sickness. This can be related to you now embracing the changes that come along with your dream and then comes the problems, financial issues, loved ones you thought would support you are trying to crush your dreams, and circumstances that are out of the realm of your control. But you push on. Now you are in full blown pregnancy in your third trimester the crucial phase, the painful phase, the phase where we get irritated at being in this state of carrying this dream so long by yourself, doing everything in your power to carry it, you made it so long against all odds and now you just want it to work (give birth). This is the point where you need to become more focus then ever, your goal is near. The darkest part of the night is right before the break of dawn, P.U.S.H…..! You can’t make any sudden moves or make any erratic change that can detour your dream or abort the child you are carrying, P.U.S.H…..! It is getting harder because this is the final test of your determination & passion for your task, P.U.S.H…..! You have laid all the infrastructure, did all the research, used all your money, lost too many nights sleep, experienced pain that not only can’t be described, but that no one would subject themselves to, P.U.S.H…..! For months you have changed your life, your physical appearance, no one but you have carried the load; this pregnancy has zapped your energy, all your time and you have no other life besides this, P.U.S.H…..! You can’t give up now everything you have is intertwined in your dream.  You can be the next revolutionary (Martin Luther King Jr., Sir Linden Pindling, Bill Gates or Maya Angelou) your dream may produce a Nobel Prize, P.U.S.H…..! This is your dream given to you by the measure of your ability which God has given to you. Not only was this dream given to you it was tailor made for you. No one else can do it. If you fail, we fail you owe it to society, P.U.S.H….! The greatest woman in my life always tells me “pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you.”  Pray Until Something Happens and Pursue Until Something Happens.   

 

Power of A Dream pt 2

Great dreams take great effort, great people, and a great amount of time. I AM GREAT!

Now there is one real reason why people neglect their dreams, finances! People lack the money to attempt their dreams. Now I’m not going to tell you a way to get money to fund your dream or tell you how to get a grant. But I will tell you something simple but yet profound. Ready…. your dream will finance itself. That’s it. Simple enough right?  First take your dream in phases. I know your goal is to own the best bakery in the community and you don’t have to the money to rent or build a space nor any money for fancy machinery.  But here is what you can do. Start baking on special events or weekends, perfect your abilities, become the very best baker you can be at your home and your talent will make way for you. Be the very best you can be with what you have and you will find that more becomes available. Let us look at some success stories: Bill Gates (Microsoft), Tyler Perry (plays & film), Tom Anderson (myspace), Mark Zuckerberg (facebook), Larry Page & Sergey Brin (google). These men all are billionaires successful in their own right. The great thing about them all is this, they started with littlie or no budget and became the very best they could with the little they had and more became available.

I’m saying all this because I want you to know there are no caps on your dreams and accomplishing them. We were created to be creative and there are no waterfall dreams. If there is a will there is always a way to achievement of your dreams, and if you believe it you can achieve it then half the task is already complete. Especially when your dreams benefit more than just you one, generally speaking the dreams that only benefit you are the hardest to achieve and generally fail because there is no driving force beside self. But if you have something to offer the world, something to change the way things are done, impact the world in a positive way we tend not to give in. This is because we have something to give burning inside waiting to come out and share with the world. The dreams we usually see have great impact are the dreams where we give out of ourselves, these dreams tend to prosper because people want to be a part of the experience, but when your goal is to do it for a return that exclusive to you & there is nothing in it for anyone else no one generally wants to be a part of that. “We can do anything if we apply ourselves.” That’s what my mom always told me! And the Power of A Dream impacts us and others around us before, during and after achievement.

The Power of A Dream pt 1

Great dreams take great effort, great people, and a great amount of time. I AM GREAT! 

History has showed us that our dreams generally stem from our talents, the use of our talent (a natural ability or power) allows us to do things companions may look at as usually, crazy and in some cases stupid. The focus here is on the development of your natural ability. You can’t expect everyone to believe in your dream or see how you make the dream a reality. This is why we direct our energy into developing our talent, seeking advice from people who have accomplished similar goals and attach ourselves to purpose driven people of like nature as motivation. 

Your dreams should give you hope, by giving you something to focus on, and a reason to wake up everyday and continue this rat race we call life. Dreams motivate you to never give in to the pressure along the way. Dreams give your life purpose and direction; they also give you a place in the world and allow you to unravel your true potential. A dream also carries a promise of changing your present condition. People usually have big dreams (found hopes) that if accomplished usually change their lives forever. I once heard a statement in the streets. “If you focus your whole family can eat.” My interpretation of this statement has always been when you apply yourself to the necessary steps that you must take to be successful not only do you arrive at the destination of success, but your success becomes so abundant that it changes the lives of everyone close to you. 

On route to your dream or in its accomplishment you should inspire people, and your actions should motivate people to follow their dreams. When you succeed you inject confidence into people who are in similar situations that you overcame. You represent the model of hard work paying and bring a fresh wind of strength to people near giving up. And furthermore your success is important to the people who look up to you. Whether you believe it or not everyone has someone who watches them with admiration cheering for you along the way wanting you to succeed just because they care about your success. With success, you accomplishing your goals in planned out fashion out manner you are now elevated to role model status. With the lack of modern day role models a righteous raise to success gives an alternative to criminal or negative ways to success. In part because people learn from your success and your failures, and when you follow your dream you teach others important lessons.

Now there is one real reason why people neglect their dreams, finances! People lack the money to attempt their dreams. Now I’m not going to tell you a way to get money to fund your dream or tell you how to get a grant. But I will tell you something simple but yet profound. Ready…. your dream will finance itself.

By Paxton P. Cooper